2022-07-04

For those that reside in the US, Happy Independence Day!

I've mentioned earlier that I've been using lagrange as 
my gopher browser lately. The more I use it the more I
like it. I don't have a broadband connection at my home
so I use my smartphone's 4G LTE connection as the primary
way to connect to the internet.

As you can imagine, this means that I highly prioritize
bandwidth savings and content rendering speed above all
else. This neatly fits into the use cases for the 
indie-web as well as gopher.

gopherspace should never be a full substitute for the
actual web but I do find myself wanting to bring
more content from the regular internet into gopherspace.

This is similar to the floodgap news feeds (floodfeeds)
project. 

I've done a quick prototype of bringing in some youtube
channels into a river of news style gophermap. Originally
I was using an online RSS feed reader to get this same 
information but rendering these feeds as a gophermap is 
extremely bandwidth efficient compared to most online 
RSS readers.

you can see this work on my root gophermap under Hololive.

Using lagrange and connecting to my gophermap gives me
essentially the same functionality for a minor but 
noticeable decrease in bandwidth usage.